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...Cattles said it had also suspended James Corr, its finance director, Ian Cummine, the chief operating officer and chairman of Welcome, and Adrian Cummings, the compliance and risk director at Welcome....
...James Corr, the group finance director who had been due to retire last month but agreed to stay on, has now fallen ill....
...James Pearce, analyst at JPMorgan Cazenove, broker to St James’s, said: “The relationship with Lloyds Banking Group appears stable for now.”...
...James Blunt, vice-president of sales and marketing of Tate & Lyle’s European food ingredients business, says: “We are known as a sugar company....
...James Hamilton, analyst at Numis Securites, said he expected the impact to be worse in 2009 when “Cattles will be forced to take significantly increased impairment charges.”...
...James Hamilton, at Numis Securities, said the savings of £1bn looked “implausibly small” and the delay in reaping those to 2011 – after the last date for a general election – as well as the measures to support...
...The view was echoed by James Ainley at JPMorgan, who cautioned splitting the company in the current environment was unlikely to create any material value....
...James Barnes, chief executive of Dobbies, said the new equity capital would allow Dobbies to repay its £100m of debt, most of which comes from Tesco after a refinancing last autumn, and fund “pretty big...
...James Hutson, analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, acknowledged that the results were good but said that, with a forecast core Tier 1 capital ratio of about 5.5 per cent, Lloyds’ capital position remained...
...James Lowman, ACS chief executive, said: “It is astonishing that after such a long investigation [the commission’s] understanding remains so limited....
...James Gleave and Ann O’Keefe of Kroll Associates, appointed as joint administrators on Monday afternoon, said they had concluded “it is impossible for Sleep Depot to continue to trade”....
...Mr Martin said Scalextric was expected to benefit from regaining – after a period of years – the licence to make products linked to James Bond....
...James Invine at Dresdner Kleinwort said additional liquidity was good news but said future loan growth would be slower....
...James Hutson of KBW said: “Retail trends appear positive, however there were some funny items worth highlighting. Investment writedowns of £200m were a bit higher than our £150m [estimate].”...
...benefit to Carr’s Milling Industries, the agriculture, food and engineering group, which predicted “a resumption in the upward trend” after profits fell in 2007 for the first time in nine years, writes James...
...and we believe the market will breathe a sigh of relief given current balances outstanding are comfortably funded throughout the third quarter of 2008 and treasury write-downs have been clarified,” said James...
...Additional reporting by Gabriel Carter in Kingston, James Wilson in Manchester and Maggie Urry and Joanna Chung in London....
...Additional reporting by Gabriel Carter in Kingston, James Wilson in Manchester and Maggie Urry in London...
...Suck and blow James Dyson, the man behind the vacuum cleaner “which doesn’t lose its suction”, was more blow than suck at Tuesday’s Marketing Society annual conference....
...James Dyson would be an obvious choice – where would the world be without his bagless vacuum cleaner?...
...Turbulence Delta Air Lines has chosen a James Bond theme for a party tonight to celebrate its new New York-London service....
...maggie.urry@ft.com...
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